What are you thankful for this Thanksgiving?

"My family. I have a great family. I have a supportive family. Loving. My mom, even though she's sick, she's still here with us. I'm just thankful for being alive and being healthy and being able to give something back to my community."

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By The Record

Posted Nov. 28, 2013 at 12:01 AM

By The Record

Posted Nov. 28, 2013 at 12:01 AM

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"My family. I have a great family. I have a supportive family. Loving. My mom, even though she's sick, she's still here with us. I'm just thankful for being alive and being healthy and being able to give something back to my community."

- Yolanda Flores, St. Mary's Dining Room volunteer

"I'm thankful for being alive. And for my family."

-Tyeshia Morris, 27, of Stockton

"Having a job and having a roof over my head."

- Carletta Featherson, Stockton

"I am thankful for all of the great progress being made in San Joaquin County, including two Certified Stroke Centers and another one in the works."

- Mary Nicholson, president and CEO of Stockton nonprofit Healings in Motion

"I am thankful for home and family, to gather with my family and for the food my mom puts on table. I am also thankful for the Rescue Mission and my job working here and seeing the help we give to the homeless."

"I'm grateful for family, friends, the community's good will toward others and the opportunity to serve my city."

- Stockton City Councilman Moses Zapien

"I am very blessed in many ways. But I must say, I am mostly thankful for my family's good health."

- Bonnie Trader, 49, Manteca

"I'm thankful for my family and obviously this great season that we're having. I feel blessed each day to be a part of this."

- James Graham, coach of No. 1 ranked Pacific men's water polo team

"I'm thankful for this team, because they bust their butts and come to work every day. You're always thankful for your family and veterans that protect this country."

- Ron Verlin, Pacific men's basketball coach

"The first thing on a personal level that jumps into my mind is health, family, friends."

- Madaline Krska, Calaveras County Clerk-Recorder

"I am thankful for Quilts of Honor and that we have given as many quilts out as we have and that we can continue to do it. We did our trip to D.C., during the shutdown, mind you. We moved the barrier back and actually played taps at the (Vietnam) Memorial wall our first day in Washington."

- Gail Belmont of Valley Springs, founder and executive director of Quilts of Honor, an organization that gives hand-made quilts to thank veterans for their service

"That would be a long list. I am blessed in many ways. But on my mind right now on the eve of our 20th anniversary is an overwhelming thanks to my wife, Charla, for saying 'yes.' "

- Steve Schwabauer, Lodi City Attorney

"Thankful for my supportive parents and family, and being taught and shown the meaning of persistence and perseverance."

- Erik Sandstrom, principal, Tokay High

"A thriving and ever-growing local arts community and the people who support it."

- Kevin Costello, artistic director, Stockton Civic Theatre

"I'm mostly thankful for having a free education and I'm thankful for going to college (next year). I'm also thankful most importantly for my parents. Everything I have is because of them. I'm also thankful for my boyfriend, Julius Martinez."

- Nancy Najera, 17, Edison High School senior

"When I'm challenged that God will help me through it and the love of family and friends to support me through it, and my children and grandchildren."

- Loretta Taylor, truck driver, Stockton

"I think of a warm fire, family getting together. A loving atmosphere."

- Gary Scott, Executive Director, Stockton Athletic Hall of Fame

"I'm thankful for the fact we have a new (Calaveras County) board of supervisors and I was able to get some deputies back and put them on the street. And I have a good staff. I'm thankful for that. It's been a good year for me."